Harris Moore is one man who will readily admit he needs his space.
And since July 2014, he has been quietly playing host to others on Long Island who feel the same way — creatively speaking.
During a 2014 trip to Detroit, Moore visited a “makerspace” — a place where people gather to create, invent and tinker with projects using 3-D printers, laser cutters and other hardware tools and supplies they might otherwise be unable to afford or access.
“I was impressed by the work being done there; however, when I searched, I saw that there was nothing similar on Long Island,” said Moore, who works at his family’s Plainview factory Howard J. Moore Co. “And while there were a few in the city and in Brooklyn, they were small and very inconvenient to get to.”
Moore realized that his family’s 17,000-square-foot factory had all of the makings for a makerspace. He created an online…
